Gil's LotD!

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/10/051010crat_atlarge?currentPage=all Malcolm Gladwell on the history of Ivy League applications.

http://www.explosm.net/comics/2569/ It's a trap!

http://alvyray.com/pixar/default.htm Selected pages from the founding documents of Pixar.

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3792109/Brother-and-sister-in-lift-sex.html#ixzz1XBUDi7wc Busted by The Sun.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150344003354357.371772.500729356&l=c6edf34df0&type=1 Steve Jobs testing out the famous Photo Booth filters.

http://i.imgur.com/fsbW7.png Oh my.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUm8wtDQgTU The famous Twentieth Century Fox theme on a flute.

http://thevirtuosi.blogspot.com/2011/10/linear-theory-of-battleship.html A look at a system that estimates the probability of ship placements in Battleship.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/10/ff_radioactivecargo/all/1 The story of a shipping container accidentally loaded with radioactive metal.

http://bacon.wikia.com/wiki/Bacone The Bacone is a success story from the field of modern bacon research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorian_Stele The Nestorian Stele records the ancient history of Christianity in China. It was buried in 845.

http://www.drawastickman.com/ Draw a stickman and watch it go!

http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/trust-issues.php?page=all An article about long-running trusts including a thousand-year trust given to a small college.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/09/vladimir-putin-action-man/100147/ Action shots of Russia's prime minister.

http://sjis.me/ (っ´ω`)っ Have this handy collection of SJIS emoticons!

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2011/jay-z-and-alan-lomax/ How a folk song collector wound up as the legal co-author of a Jay-Z diss track.

http://www.deepdarc.com/2010/11/27/hacking-christmas-lights/ This guy reverse engineered these Christmas lights and published a guide on programming them. They're kinda expensive but otherwise a really nifty Christmas decoration.

http://civilwarstoriesofinspiration.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/rebel-snowball-wars-fighting-winter-boredom/ Historical accounts of a snowball battle between northern and southern armies in the Civil War.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/08/23/how-to-get-12-billion-of-gold-to-venezuela/ An analysis of the challenge of transporting gold across the Atlantic.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6667949/pappy-van-winkle A short story on Pappy Van Winkle, a rare bourbon. Bonus Bourbon recipe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick Wikipedia on the history of tally sticks throughout the ages and how they were used.

http://fuckyouziggy.blogspot.com/ No love for Ziggy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0RZbrzOBxg A video of one of the explosions done to mine out the future Second Avenue Subway in NYC.

http://buttersafe.com/2011/09/08/disaster/ Disaster.

http://jstn.cc/post/8692501831 A guide to configuring your hardware serial terminal with MacOS X's gettys.

https://github.com/facebook/fbconsole Post to Facebook from the command line!

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/136274.html A rant on the desire to create "lightweight" open source software replacements. I'm linking this in particular because "To a first approximation, when someone says "Lightweight" what they mean is 'I don't understand the problems that the alternative solves'." is an excellent quote and summary of the issue.

http://biscuitfox.smackjeeves.com/ Biscuit Fox is a new webcomic about the life of an immigrant NFL player.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/hopr?start=10 Reviews and analysis of all the Power Rangers TV show seasons.

http://chainsawsuit.com/2011/08/16/the-well-coddled/ Warren Buffet on the rich.